Friday, June 8, 2012

Fighting the BMW Spam Machine – Part 2

An Open Letter to BMW AG

Dear BMW,

The fact that you have successful business is not an excuse
to abandon basic human decency. Relentlessly harassing people in order to
peddle products in not acceptable behavior and tends to indicate that you
believe it is necessary to cajole people into buying your products because your products
lack sufficient quality to sell themselves.

Going into another country and setting up a legal
corporation to encourage local businesses to flaunt the laws of the land is not
being a responsible world citizen. Your authorized representative “BMW of Mt.
Laurel” has been engaging in a spam campaign for more than a year now. I have
repeatedly asked them to stop spamming me and they refuse to honor legitimate
requests or comply with US legislation against unwanted commercial emails. BMW
of North America appears to be completely supportive of the illegal tactics and
refuses to take any actions to stop BMW of Mt. Laurel from continuously
spamming me. At this point it would be reasonable to assume that BMW AG approves
of BMW of North America’s support for illegal and unethical spamming, but If I
am wrong, feel free to reply and let me know how you intend to put an end to
the spamming and to force BMW of Mt. Laurel to compensate me for the relentless
harassment.

I do understand that BMW of North America is technically a
separate legal entity, and that BMW of Mt. Laurel is a separate legal entity,
however, they cannot use the BMW trademark if you do not allow them to
represent you as common spammers, like they currently do. If you cannot revoke
their licensed representation for failing to abide by the laws of the country
they do business in, then you need to hire competent legal representation to
write our contracts for you.

If you will not put an end to the spamming then I must
assume it is how your company chooses to operate and continue to shed light upon
your lawlessness and lack of basic human decency.